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An interesting take on the dystopian genre

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

April 13, 2022 by donttrustthe_bea 1 Comment

A reality TV show launches 12 contestants into the woods, fending for their own survival and the chance to win a huge prize. The last person able to survive alone wins the money and bragging rights. Cut off from the rest off the world, they are left to their own devices to survive in the wilderness and win the competition. The producers of the show give nicknames to each contestant; our protagonist is Zoo. She’s plucky and bookish, and has a hard time adjusting to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #plague, #suspensenovel, Alexandra Oliva, Dystopian, psychological thriller, survival

donttrustthe_bea's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #plague, #suspensenovel, Alexandra Oliva, Dystopian, psychological thriller, survival ·
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A Plague of Monsters and maybe Magic

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giebrecht

November 23, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have to honest and admit that I did not read this  thoroughly, more like slow skimmed. The Monster of Elendhaven was described as “dark”, “humorous”, “rotten with magic”; these descriptors match some things I’ve read and enjoyed. This novella is most definitely more the ‘dark’, as in horror. The setting is Elendhaven, somewhere around the North Pole, where some sort of seriously nasty plague caused by a magic eruption of some sort that either kills people or essentially mutates the survivors. Being a sorcerer […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #plague, horror, jennifer giebrecht, magic, The Monster of Elendhaven

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:95 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #plague, horror, jennifer giebrecht, magic, The Monster of Elendhaven ·
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My first CBR post since 2019

Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) by Dan Brown

February 2, 2021 by kfishgirl 4 Comments

This is my first CBR review since 2019. I’m not sure what happened last year (aside from the global pandemic), but it just kind of got away from me. I just checked Goodreads, and I read 55 books last year, so I totally could’ve hit another Cannonball. I just didn’t have the energy to review them. I think the problem was that I waited too long to start. I read a few books in January, but I also had this huge investigation I was writing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #plague, dan brown, Florence, Robert Langdon

kfishgirl's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #plague, dan brown, Florence, Robert Langdon ·
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Reproductive Freedom and the Apocalypse

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

August 5, 2019 by allisonata Leave a Comment

  Content warning: sexual violence, stillbirth A worldwide plague kills nearly everyone on the planet. A midwife wakes in a San Francisco hotel. (It’s practically “28 Days Later.”) She stocks up on antibiotics—and, critically, birth control—and walks into an extra-hellish hellscape. Since females experienced the highest mortality rate, the rare woman or girl that survives is a treasure. Commodity. Object. The midwife trains herself to be self-sufficient. She carries a gun. However, the key to her survival is her avoidance of other people—that is, men. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #plague, cbr11, horror, meg elison, pandemic, post-apocalyptic nightmare fuel, ReadWomen

allisonata's CBR11 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #plague, cbr11, horror, meg elison, pandemic, post-apocalyptic nightmare fuel, ReadWomen ·
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The Variants are back, and so is Apollo!

Extinction Aftermath (The Extinction Cycle Book 6) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

June 22, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is book six in the Extinction Cycle books.  I read book five a few months ago, and then needed a little break from the bleak world of the Variants and the Juveniles and all the fighting.  When I picked this book up (Kindle version natch), it took me a little while to get into it, for those very same reasons.  Once I got going though, I couldn’t stop.  I love the characters in this world.  Also, Apollo is back.  Once I saw he’d be […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: #plague, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Variants

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: #plague, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Variants ·
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I have no idea what’s happening, but I keep reading!

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 1) by Margaret Atwood

March 22, 2017 by kfishgirl 3 Comments

Ok so I’m not sure where to start with this. I think I borrowed the ebook from my library because I heard about how great The Handmaid’s Tale was. My library didn’t have that book, so I went with another interesting sounding Margaret Atwood book. It’s the first book in a trilogy. The blurb for this book sounded like my kind of story. Amazon called it “an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future”, which seems like a cool premise. Plus – […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #plague, Margaret Atwood

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #plague, Margaret Atwood ·
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